In a city that is, essentially, a vast construction site, new roads and buildings seem to spring up daily.
Instead of electrical charge, hard disks store data in what is essentially a vast array of tiny magnets.
The sparsely populated plain is essentially a vast hollow below the level of the Mekong, and it has been partially reclaimed by a levee and drainage system.
Terezín was essentially a vast camp used as a transit hub for tens of thousands of Jews sent to Auschwitz and Treblinka.
While so-called "globalizations" have often been illustrated by the Whole Earth image, associated developments have essentially revealed vast dimensions of space and time that have unsettled our very concept of world and are characteristic issues of the Anthropocene.
So the Eastern Mediterranean, however, is a land of fertile oases, river valleys like the famed Tigris/Euphrates/Fertile Crescent area, coastal cities with commerce, whereas Arabia is essentially a vast expanse of barely habitable terrain.
The set — essentially a vast platform made up of 24 rotating planks mounted on a crossbar that can rise and fall — is the biggest and most complicated piece of machinery ever used at the house.
The size and placement of reserves is the source of bitter controversy, because the ocean is essentially a vast, wet, barren blue desert, containing relatively small oases where the food chain flourishes and fish of every kind congregate.
Founded in 1804, with Thomas Jefferson and James Madison among its earliest members, the society was for much of its history essentially a vast private collection of books, letters, official documents, photographs and art.
For starters, where Beethoven created a largely secular, universalist encomium, Mendelssohn's "Lobgesang" (or "Hymn of Praise") draws mostly on biblical texts and is essentially a vast psalm with a long, lush orchestral preface.
